exactlythat wrote:i just won a competition on his blog about what dubstep means to me but i wrote it baked and its so sickeningly cheesy and embarassing.

"Dubstep, the genre that defies the nuances of genre, is united by only one characteristic – bone jarring bass; an experience that transcends music and speaks directly to the body’s physical and mental state, through the potency of vast volumes of low wave frequencies acting on the brain. Characteristic saw, sine and square waves enter the ear, sending the brain’s synapses firing and releasing large quantities of neurotransmitter substance, inducing a euphoric, meditative state. The experience of listening to dubstep on a large sound system can be likened to feelings of weightlessness; being carried by the phenomenal activity in the air around the body. The air we breathe is full of excitement, heavy and explosive in the lungs, in stark contrast to the minimalism of the sound. Time is distorted while the triviality of everyday life is forgotten as we lose ourselves in the awe of the earth’s physicality which is felt through dubstep.

Dubstep to me is an experience that like many of life’s wonders, cannot be explained with words because it is greater than language - the sounds of dubstep have existed for eternity, before humankind and its language constructs. It’s paradoxical in so many ways that we will never truly understand it. I have only concluded that dubstep, the name coined only recently in the scale of existence, is a triviality, as the sound itself is the earth’s most primal energy that we have only just tapped into. This is the beginning of what science cannot answer."